Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she found the recent video of an AFL-CIO leader smashing a piñata of her “creepy,” and the South Carolina governor described the incident as typical behavior of “union thugs.”

“It’s creepy. I still hurt every time I see it,” Haley said to Greta Van Susteren of Fox News. “This is not typical of South Carolinians. This is typical of union thugs.”

Haley was responding to a YouTube video that surfaced over the weekend, in which Donna Dewitt, the president of the South Carolina AFL-CIO, takes a baseball bat to a piñata featuring the Republican governor’s face. With onlookers cheering her on with comments like, “Wait ‘til her face comes around, then whack her,” Dewitt repeatedly beats the piñata until it eventually falls down.

The governor told Van Susteren that the incident only made her more determined to be a “union buster.”

“All it does is it makes my heels taller, my heels sharper so that I can kick harder,” she said. “I’m not going to stop beating up on the unions. I’m not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending. … I’m a lot tougher than that. I’m going to keep on kicking.”

Dewitt said after the controversial clip surfaced online that she had meant “no ill intent” with the piñata incident.

“I would have played the game with them no matter it would have been pin the tail on the donkey with Nikki Haley’s face on it. I still would have played,” she told ABC News. “There was no ill intent. We were certainly [having] a good time. I’m not mad or angry.”

Haley, who said she has never spoken to or met Dewitt, said she hopes to never cross paths with the woman and that she would be surprised to ever receive an apology.

“I have found it interesting that she said she had no regrets. And I think it’s very typical of the unions. They don’t have regrets for what they do,” the governor said. “The video — the way everybody’s enjoying it is creepy, at best. But it’s not something that’s going to change me. I think it’s got people fired up.”